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For all the glories of the earth and sky
- Deuteronomy 8:7-8
- Psalms 103:1-3
- Psalms 104:4-25
- Psalms 93:3-4
- Isaiah 55:7-9
- Luke 23:49
- Romans 5:1-2
- Ephesians 1:9-10
- 1 Timothy 6:17-19
- Titus 2:11
- 205
For all the glories of the earth and sky,
for night’s soft voice, and morning’s silent haze,
for trees that whisper, and for winds that sigh,
we give you praise.
2. For summer sunshine and for cooling showers,
for stars that light the heavens’ darkening maze,
for dewdrops sparkling on the newborn flowers,
our hearts would praise.
3. For lightning’s flash, and thunder’s echoing roar,
for seas that beat upon their endless ways,
for wild waves’ anthem on a rock-bound shore,
we offer praise.
4. For mighty mountains and eternal snows,
enduring changeless through the changing days,
for moonlit valleys and for sunset glows,
accept our praise.
5. Yet for Christ’s great redeeming work of love,
our souls their highest hymn of thanks would raise,
for free salvation streaming from above,
we render praise.
6. For all the matchless wonders of your grace
seen in that cross on which we humbly gaze,
for peace and pardon to a fallen race,
your name we praise.
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Mrs G Golden
Approaching God - Creator and Sustainer
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Tune
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Kandersteg 
Metre: - 10 10 10 4
Composer: - Allen, Cecil John
The story behind the hymn
From one of the best-known and simplest hymns in this section, we turn to a relatively little-used hymn by (Miss) Dorothy Dennison, who later became Mrs Golden. It appears in Golden Bells (1925 edn) and its 1964 successor Hymns of Faith; the author had by then given free permission for its inclusion. Stz 5 is the only one with significant changes, and here only to replace ‘work of thine/love divine’. A comparison with 204 suggests that this later hymn is its equal in vivid pictorial language; that its author had a wider (and wilder) view of the natural world than Mrs Alexander’s more domestic scenery; and that by the significant ‘Yet’, two thirds of the way through, it leads us to celebrate our Redeemer as well as our Creator. It thus makes more demands on a congregation, and can never be sung thoughtlessly. Its counterpart from two centuries earlier is Joseph Hart’s 307.
Cecil Allen’s tune KANDERSTEG seems also limited to its appearance with these words. It was probably composed for them, perhaps for his Epsom church in the 1920s. It is set to them in GB and HF; the name is that of a Swiss resort near Interlaken, familiar to the composer from his holiday travels.
A look at the author
Dennison, Dorothy
(Mrs G Golden); b 1900, d ? She is probably to be identified with the author of several books for teenage girls in the 1930s and 40s, parallel to Montague Goodman’s series for boys. These were partly for Christian teaching and encouragement, part evangelistic, often in narrative form. Others were general school stories in the Enid Blyton genre, such as Mystery at St Mawe’s, Corrie and Co.(1948) and The Rebellion of the Upper Fifth (1949). The one hymn for which she is known, and for which she gave Scripture Union free permission to use, appeared in Golden Bells (1925 edn) and Hymns of Faith (1964), both with the name ‘Dennison’. Mr E F Golden of Maidenhead was one of the leaders of the 40-strong class of Maidenhead Crusaders in the 1950s. No.205.